No, wait. There are two types of trash collectors in Providence. One type must hate us, and the other certainly loves us.
The first type comes in a massive, smelly truck and compacts the trash then takes it to the dump. They hate us, because it's amazing, for each of the past five weeks, we've put out like three houses worth of trash! (This doesn't even include all the junk now stored in the garage, which Nick is going to help us haul to the dump at some point.)
The second type of trash collectors are ordinary citizens. Our old screen door was on the curb for about thirty minutes before being snapped in half and thrown in a pick-up. A box of remnant electrical wires was taken yesterday. There is *so* much dumpster diving going on, it makes me feel like my definition of trash is far too expansive. The roofer's dumpster across the street? A magnet for idling pick-up trucks.
I understand increases in commodity prices have made this sort of salvage work more lucrative, but then again, driving around town in an 11-miles-per-gallon 1988 Ford F-150 to collect it all seems sort of counter-productive.
Ah well... time to get ready for work. Need to stop thinking about trash. I need to start thinking about stuff like this:
The preparation of para diphenyl propiolic acid and some new and interesting reactions of diphenyl and its derivatives
Behavior of two-level tunneling mechanistically alloyed and amorphous crystalline high T [subscript] c superconductor, YBa[subscript 2]Cu[subscript 3]O[subscript 7] - [subscript delta ]
Models of slow intergranular void growth due to void surface and grain boundary self-diffusion
I knew this, but it's really starting to hit home. Brown is a hotbed of brainpower. If you feel like it, join the Grok Fest, at the bottom of this page... click through some theses since 1893.
3 comments:
We sometimes leave beer for the trash collectors so that they don't empty the bins on our lawn since we too are known for our large deposits. However, since you have so many of the second kind of trash collectors I am not sure if this would work for you.
Ha! Right right. Here that strategy would be something like feeding strays!
So you're the audience of one who is going to read my dissertation, Rob. I get it now. Well, better you than me.
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